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British royal family events

Order by the year each British royal event took place. You place all 35 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.

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How the British royal family timeline works

Coronations, weddings, births, deaths and scandals: each card is an event in the British royal family, ordered by the year it happened. The place, or a short note on what happened, is printed underneath. One event is on the timeline when you begin, with its year visible. Every turn, you slot the next card into a gap. When you're right the year is revealed; when you're wrong the event still moves to its true place, and one of your three lives is gone.

The deck reaches from the start of the Victorian age to the current reign, so you'll cross several monarchs and more than one family name. Westminster Abbey hosts so many of these that the venue is often no help. Thinking in generations works best: work out whose coronation, wedding or birth you are looking at and where they sat in the line of succession. Events from the same reign are the toughest to order.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

What's in the deck

Here are 28 of the 35 cards you might be dealt, with 7 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • Coronation of Queen Victoria Westminster Abbey
  • Wedding of Victoria and Albert Chapel Royal, St James's Palace
  • Death of Prince Albert The Prince Consort dies at Windsor Castle
  • Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria Thanksgiving at Westminster Abbey
  • Coronation of Edward VII Postponed by the king's surgery
  • Coronation of George V Westminster Abbey
  • The royal house is renamed Windsor Dropping the German Saxe-Coburg name
  • Wedding of the Duke of York and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon Westminster Abbey
  • Abdication of Edward VIII Gave up the throne to marry Wallis Simpson
  • Coronation of George VI Westminster Abbey
  • Wedding of the Duke of Windsor and Wallis Simpson Château de Candé, France
  • Wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten Westminster Abbey
  • Death of George VI Sandringham House
  • Coronation of Elizabeth II Televised from Westminster Abbey
  • Wedding of Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones Westminster Abbey
  • Investiture of Charles as Prince of Wales Caernarfon Castle
  • Wedding of Charles and Diana St Paul's Cathedral
  • Birth of Prince William St Mary's Hospital, Paddington
  • Wedding of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson Westminster Abbey
  • Windsor Castle fire The Queen's annus horribilis
  • Death of the Queen Mother Royal Lodge, Windsor
  • Wedding of Charles and Camilla Civil ceremony at Windsor Guildhall
  • Wedding of William and Catherine Westminster Abbey
  • Birth of Prince George St Mary's Hospital, Paddington
  • Harry and Meghan step back from royal duties Dubbed Megxit
  • Death of Prince Philip Windsor Castle
  • Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II Four-day bank holiday weekend
  • Death of Elizabeth II Balmoral Castle, Scotland

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